Books are my only friends (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Foo Fighters used to be my standard for awesome videos. You had the Evil Dead/Sid and Nancy referencing Everlong (still the most awesomely badasss video of all time) and the Mentos ad mocking Big Me . But I have come to realize the champs are the New Pornographers. These fine Canadians (plus a Yank) have a potentially off putting name, but their songs are poppy, indie rock gems. Unlike so many...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | yesterday
After spending most of the ’90s failing to bull their way out of the local scene, Nashville power-pop foursome The Shazam developed some real momentum at the start of the ’00s, drawing international attention with the booming, crazily catchy albums Godspeed The Shazam and Tomorrow The World . And then… silence. Prior to the new album Meteor , The Shazam hadn’t released any...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
So advances to 2nd round of World Chess Cup 11/24/2009 11:11 AM Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia - GM Wesley So of the Philippines achieved another milestone when he reached the second round of the 2009 World Chess Cup at the Khanty-Mansiysk Festival of Arts here. So, at 15 already one of the world's most-recognizable young players, eliminated GM Gadir Guseino of Azerbaijan, 3-1, and moved forward to the tough,...
Sponsored Linx (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
O ne of the first songs I really loved was Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These) by the Eurythmics. I'd grown up listening to the Electric Light Orchestra, and little else. When Sweet Dreams charted in 1983 (I was 10) the song hit me like a tidal wave. It was one of those watershed songs. I remember coming back from a school camping trip and everybody was singing this song, it felt like I'd missed a massive...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
21 November, 2009 [ 12:18 ] Peru's Deysi Cori looking for a victory in the Chess Young World Championship LivinginPeru.com Isabel Guerra Our genious chess player Deysi Cori (ELO 2374) continues her path to the Under-16 title at Chess Young World Championship. She defeated Ucranian Yuliya Shvayger, to reach 8.5 points in nine games played in Turkey. If she wins today, we will have a new world champion....
Kris Hudson-Lee's world (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I realised today that the ELO album Out of the Blue is over 30 years old... And it doesn't sound it. Classic prog! Hannah came out of hospital yesterday and is doing well. Posted via email from Kris's posterous
Irvine Housing Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Today we have another Woodbridge bubble equity seller. Irvine Home Address ... 15 BAYSIDE Irvine, CA 92604 Resale Home Price ...... $998,000 You got me running going out of my mind You got me thinking me that I'm wasting my time Don't bring me down No, no, no, no, no, ooh ooh I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor Don't bring me down Don't Bring Me...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Pinoy aces ready for World Chess Cup 11/19/2009 11:24 AM Ready and confident. That's how GM Wesley So and two other highly-rated Filipino players describe their condition for the World Chess Cup that is set to start Nov. 21 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. So, GM Rogelio Antonio, Jr. and Darwin Laylo left the country at 7 a.m. Thursday via Vietnam Airlines, exactly two days before the first round of the...
The Music Ninja (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Woke up early today, which only means I was cranky and already having a bad day. Luckily for me I found this song on my Inbox and it completely turned the day around. Hope it does the same to you! Enjoy the cover by ELO (Electric Light Orchestra)of Mr Blue Sky by The Spinto Band. The [...]
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
All this reminiscing around the career of the mighty ELO got me musing about something. Is Jeff Lynne basically the single luckiest/most fulfilled bloke in the entire history of rock music? Let's look at the evidence... Here's Jeff, a member of an obscure Brummy beat combo who's grown up being heavily influenced by a range of artists, each of which have blended to form a part of his musical DNA. There's...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
ELO Live at Wembley on Sky Arts now. You know you want to.
Scooter McGavin's 9th Green (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Quote of the Week : What, like the first rule of Perv Club is no talking about Perv Club. (Ronnie - Mercy ) Song of the Week : Evil Woman – Electric Light Orchestra (as sung by Jeff, Community ) Big News of the Week : Hank and Eastwick: Dead and Dead : Not that I care. And neither of the show showed up the list of The Best New Shows of Fall 2009 that I released earlier this week. And some of...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
What with all the respect for ELO coming from Pugwash & The Duckworth Lewis Method I decided to check out some of their early stuff to see what it was like. My memory of them growing up was that it was considered as "music for people who don't like music" especially by young people with punk/new wave leanings like myself. Having said that "A New World Record" is a seriously...
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
YouTube via jjkdc. Anyone ID the synth rig. You can kind of make out the rack at 3:35 and close-ups of the keyboard at 3:54. They keyboard has a joystick controller, the rack could be a Roland System 100m, but who knows...
donewaiting.com (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
As I mentioned previously, fun. is my not-so-guilty pleasure of ‘09. Here’s the first official video from Aim and Ignite. Something very ELO about this track…
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